stevesaunders.bsky.social @stevesaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There’s an article to be written about how this scandal arose because of owners that come from a feudal dictatorship without the rule of law or an independent judiciary 110
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialCaptain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s entirely possible there have been criminal offences committed here Eg false accounting 281
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialPhilip Stafford @staffordphilip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"As far as I'm concerned, the first thing you can do for me is to chuck all your medals into the biggest bin you can find, because you've never won any of them fairly." 17323
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 25/09/2026I don't know enough about sports journalism and who's sourced with who to know who is briefing this to Ornstein and why. But oooofph. www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...nytimes.comManchester City found guilty on almost all Premier League charges relating to financial breaches (Gift Article)City were charged by the Premier League in February 2023. 153810
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I think the prime minister should have said this 1844461
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026What on earth is happening? 23833131341
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialMr Socko @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now... 20857361106
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialLizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible 24864570
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Vader: Alderaan explosion not caused by Death Star 210327
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Congrats to all those MP's who have voted to subject terminally ill people to months more pain and suffering when they could have a choice to end their pain in a manner of their choosing. Well done. Top work. I'm sure you'll all be devoting yourselves to improving pallative care now. Oh. 2026655
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialAndrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Dismayed by defeat of the assisted dying bill. Nothing was won today – no new palliative care funding, no new disability support. And the suffering that brought this bill to parliament remains. 13338100
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialJack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026FUN FACT: The reason we sell petrol by the litre but measure performance by mpg is because in the 1970s oil shock, British pumps had exactly the same issue and it was easier to put stickers over the word "gallon" rather than retrofitting all the dials. 1618544
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialJosh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Do Telegraph editors and subs not know the difference between “refugee” and “former refugee”, or don’t they care? Profoundly unpatriotic as well as inaccurate headline @jdportes.bsky.social 127514
stevesaunders.bsky.social @stevesaunders.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Badenoch v Barnett on R4 Today proving that Badenoch will fall apart under the scrutiny of a general election campaign 140
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 09/09/2026I'm sorry but: a journalist knocked on my mum's door, so now she can "never, ever" go back to it? I thought it was millennials / gen z who were supposed to be the snowflakes? Or the libs that get triggered? 3845670
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 09/09/2026There's a constant insinuation that Ed Miliband is not a 'real Jew', and it seems very bad 711123174
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 09/09/2026Well, look at that. 324048
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialNadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If you’re not Jewish you won’t understand how simultaneously hurtful and enraging this is I can only imagine how hard it must be for Ed Miliband, the son of literal Holocaust survivors - whatever you think of him, he does not deserve this 31744166
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialAdam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Honestly the thing I’ve found oddest about that interview and the Beeb’s whole framing in general is the insistence on framing it as an internal Labour party disputes thing. Canada and vast chunks of the EU doing the same don’t get a mention. 41047
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The Chief Rabbi speaks for Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and their apologists in this country. Ed Miliband speaks for me and many other British Jews. 27809209
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialNadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The dark irony of people pearl clutching about the ethnic cleaning statements is if you actually spoke to the average hill top settler they would tell you: yes, we are ethnically cleansing - that is exactly what we are doing 524159
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Here's the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason basically repeating the Reform line on why Ed Miliband announced today's sanctions in response to Israeli government-enabled ethnic cleansing on the West Bank. It's all about winning back Muslim votes. That's it.bbc.co.ukIsrael to shut down UK consulate in Jerusalem in response to sanctions on Israeli settlements in West BankIsrael's foreign minister announced the move after UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband accused Israeli "settler terrorists" of "ethnic cleansing" in the illegally occupied West Bank. 42310
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I'm sure Chris Mason will be all over it😂 513119
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialPaula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Can't decide whether the footage from Dover or of the audience and protestor at the Reform conference is the most chilling. 1221238
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialBen Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I’ve so missed Nadine Dorries’ unique and dynamic approach to live television interviews. Channel 4 News. 5243437
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialMichael Drummond @drummond-bass.bsky.social · 04/09/2026 127158
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialRobert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026Prison? 1154028703
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialAndrew Rait @andrewrait.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The hunt to locate BBCs Chris Mason continues - last seen in Nigel Farage's large intestine 🤨 1426
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"The out of touch elites think this will hurt Farage" when he's literally the most unpopular politician in the country. 623710
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialJohn T @jtatlife.bsky.social · 03/09/2026After all the recent fuss over some non-criminal behaviour from a Cambridge academic, let's see how much attention this Cambridge Professor of Divinity gets in the press...given we're now talking criminal behaviour I'm sure we'll see hundreds and hundreds of articles in the Times and the Telegraph? 214237
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Just keep muttering to myself "he was still trying to solicit another donation during the by election he held to avoid the investigation." 735578
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialDylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Share a thought tonight for James Johnson, who will for once not have to motivatedly reason his way to why a poll-related news story is positive for the Tories, but won't be able to share that insight. 928151
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"alright our kid could you get Farage bang to rights on tape accepting foreign donations?" 216833
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A longstanding issue in governance of the UK is that regulators are simply toothless. OfCom is a great example. We have a regulatory system where regulators don’t regulate. 2518043
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialCaptain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Reform UK is a non stop crime scene 1133
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialCaptain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The tragic thing is the BBC would not have touched this story with a barge pole They’d have run a mile 2445
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Like, this is objectively not what the disclosure rules are for and it is quite apparent Johnson knows it. 053
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Zia Yusuf has tweeted this about the leader of Camden Council, Sagal Abdi-Wali, who has lived in Camden for over 35 years, after arriving as a child refugee in the early 1990s. (Nadhim Zahawi, born in Baghdad to an Iraqi Kurdish family, came to the UK as an 11 year old:should be asked about this) 1151463523
stevesaunders.bsky.social @stevesaunders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Quite apart from the fact that Holborn and St Pancras is a Lab stronghold there are other reasons why Polanski won’t win 000
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Big stakes now for both parties. Greens have chances to turn the tide on recent decline and demonstrate Polanski is a winner. Labour have a chance to show the Burnham bounce is real, consolidate the left in a London heartland seat, and deal a potential knockout blow to Green insurgency. 2118449
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialRep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Our president is a moron. 1071730249
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 02/09/2026omg someone just sent me this 1632557
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 01/09/2026thought a lot about this quote 3948
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 01/09/2026From what I can see, even if Zack runs and loses, as long as he makes it a genuinely competitive race that's still better than not running. If he loses narrowly (or much better wins) that's still better than not trying. The risk is if he ends up miles behind and I think it's worth taking 7452
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialPaul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Big test for both Burnham and the Greens. Burnham is hoping to unite the left and neutralise the Greens - some evidence that's happening in the polls. For the Greens this could be a test of whether they've already peaked. And if Polanski doesn't run, he'll be accused of bottling it. 1141
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 01/09/2026There will be a lot of breathless commentary about the threat from the Greens, but Labour should win Holborn and St Pancras. 8366
Reposted by @stevesaunders.bsky.socialMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/09/2026god I'm actually quite gobsmacked by Starmer's decision, it's just so......small, so revealing of his complete and utter lack of interest in Parliament and parliamentary politics, until the very end 1081095120
![“Basically, the way that that worked… Dan [Jukes] gave me a call and said, look we want to do this polling of councils to show X. Can you guys do this? Gave him three options of quotes. Came back, asked for a slightly bespoke thing, we came back and then we just went and did it. Kept him in the loop”.
There is no suggestion that Johnson broke the law. But he told William that concealing the poll’s origin was a breach of British Polling Council rules, the voluntary body that regulates the industry. “I think that there is a little bit of like informal rule bending that we did with our last one. When we published those results, we should have disclosed who the client was”.
“We said the client was The Telegraph. And The Telegraph doesn’t care because they love the fact that they can say this is our poll.”
He explained that he didn’t mind The Telegraph claiming the poll as their own “because it looks like media people are commissioning it”.
When William asked if that was preferable to the journalists reporting that the poll was commissioned by Dan Jukes, Johnson replied: “Yeah, well indeed. And that's never going to happen, because we'd never let that happen”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mpngfs6ffibk7udfzb5jhvrq/bafkreighum26qprlobfcuiybnwcp3z7ut6h24zjigc3bckspuylmehghqu)
